Why Take a Learn to Drive Holiday in Lismore?

Taking a learn to drive holiday in Lismore means that you will be learning to drive in one of Australia’s best learn-to-drive environments. One which, believe it or not, Sydney cannot even begin to match!

Lismore is the capital of the Northern Rivers Region of New South Wales. The yet-to-be-declared Region of Bundjalung.

More holidaymakers visit NSW’s Northern Rivers than any other place in Australia (except Sydney and Melbourne). Come to Lismore and you will feel incredibly tempted to stay a lot more than a little longer! You’ll just want to keep relaxedly learning to drive in one of Australia’s most stunningly and deeply green natural environments.

Lismore is, in addition, close to other very popular holiday destinations. Including Byron Bay, Nimbin, the Border Ranges, the Gold Coast and the Gold Coast Hinterland. Also nearby are the serene Clarence Valley, the challenging Coffs Harbour and the gorgeously beautiful Bellingen.

What If I Am (or My Supervising Driver Is) Stressed, Nervous or Terrified?

Many (if not most) novice drivers are worried, anxious or nervous. Learner drivers may be uneasy, uncomfortable or unsettled. Even upset! Trainee drivers often worry about having a scary driving experience. Beginner drivers freak out about causing a crash.

Few novice drivers will admit their concern. Nor their unease, anxiety or nervousness.

Likewise, edgy and tense supervising drivers often tend to deny their irritability and insecurity. Even though they feel troubled, jittery, jumpy, tense and/or uptight.

How Does PDC Help Relieve Stress and Anxiety?

First of all, both supervising drivers and their learners need to admit (particularly in preparing for a NSW RMS driving test) that they’re feeling tense. Perhaps each might do that to another person (another parent or a close friend, for example).

Also, using quiet streetscapes for driving tuition helps. So supervising drivers may need to drive to a familiar, lightly-trafficked and out-of-town location. Therefore more effort, more time and more money.

Furthermore, using a comfortable, safe and reliable car is helpful.

And, the assurance that this intensive driving course results in 80% of learner drivers being 80% likely to score at least 80% in a NSW driving test is itself comforting.

What Causes Anxiety and Nervousness?

Learner drivers’ nervousness is caused mainly by a subconscious appreciation of their lack of depth of driving skill. So novice drivers need to trust that their supervising driver can effectively cover such lack of skill. If there is no such trust, or if supervising drivers cannot cover their learners’ lack of skill, novice drivers should use a professional driving instructor.

Benefits of a Regional Intensive Driving Course:

Massive exposure to “city-country contrast” (the single most difficult factor in driving).

A well structured two to five day intensive driving course conducted by a superbly qualified and deeply experienced driving instructor.

Sydney’s traffic is intense, fast, skilled and high pressured. So it is much harder for Sydney driving teachers to maximize their learners’ comfort, safety and efficiency. Sydney driving schools have to provide heaps of driving lessons to deepen novice drivers’ skills. Skills of deciding quickly, safely, solidly and consistently where and when to turn, to give way, to stop or to merge.

Or to change lanes early and safely.

Why Are Driving Lessons in Lismore Safer?

First of all, you’re not trying to learn to drive in Sydney!

Also, you’ll be taking professional driving lessons with me, Charles. Over three decades I have become one of Australia’s most widely and deeply qualified and experienced driving instructors.

3D is the complex foundation stone of point-to-point driving. 3D properly structures strategic defensive driver training – right from the very start.

Hence 3D is the single best driver training to avoid single vehicle collisions (1/3 of all collisions).

Unlike Lismore, Sydney does not offer the variety and density of streets and roads to effectively train novice drivers in 3D skills.

So Does Dynamic Defensive Driving Use Witches Hats and Skid Pans?

No!

Some ‘defensive driving courses Sydney’ do – on racetracks – use witches hats and skid pans.

These off-road facilities are used for so-called “advanced driving lessons” or “advanced driver training”. It is more accurately described as ‘Emergency Services Driving’.

The NSW RMS notes that ‘advanced driver training’ is best undertaken when drivers are fully licenced. Newer drivers risk believing that they can rely on the immediacy of those skills to avoid collisions. They (usually) can’t! Further, such techniques need consistent practice. Risking Police accusations of “hoon driving”!!

Does DSGS Offer More Value for Money than Sydney Driving Instruction?YES!ABSOLUTELY!

The first reason is that PDC, through DSGS, provides a proper scientific foundation and structure in its driving lessons. So the Professional Driving Consultancy helps keep costs such as third party and comprehensive insurance premiums, repairs and depreciation costs right down.

So PDC provides highly affordable driver tuition. As well as minimising driver lifetime costs like insurance and depreciation.

AND: PDC credits every RMS (and interstate) log book with THREE hours for every one hour.

Compare:

The big Sydney driving schools – covering ‘driving school Inner West’, ‘driving school Eastern Suburbs’ and ‘driving school North Shore’ – ask for $90 – $100 per (short) hour. (A ‘short hour’ is one in which some paid time is not spent on mentally or physically driving. For example, time spent on recording log book details.) So a package of, say, 10 short hours will cost between $900 and $1,000. And ‘changeover time’ also adds further net cost – of the order of 15%.

So, Is There Any Reason to Use a ‘Driving School Sydney’?

Driving skills are far and away best first learned in Lismore’s much more relaxing and much more varied streetscapes. Yet an extra lesson or two with an appropriate ‘driving school Sydney’ would certainly help further deepen one’s driving skills.